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Japanese Studies Collections In The United States: A Historical Perspective, Eizaburo Okuizumi

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Half A Century Of Japanese Cataloging At Columbia University, Miwa Kai

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

The International Outreach Of American Librarianship: Historical Notes On Some Intiatives In Asia, Warren M. Tsuneishi

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Developing New Japanese Collections And Services At The University Of California, San Diego, 1988-1993, Eiji Yutani

Journal of East Asian Libraries

March 15 of this year marked the fifth anniversary of my arrival at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). On a bright, warm spring day in 1988,1 moved to the arid, scenic suburban La Jolla campus from the equally beautiful and balmy city of Berkeley where I had worked as a Japanese bibliographer for the century-old University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Library for two and a half decades. The past five years here in southern California have been one of the finest chapters of my professional life — perhaps the last — and a truly fascinating one. As I …

Japan As A Capital Exporter And The World Economy (Occasional Papers No. 18. Group Of Thirty, New York) By Masaru Yoshitomi, Ademola Bamidele

Economic and Financial Review

Sound financial system is considered central to the development of trade either in an economy or internationally. This fact informed the author of this Occasional paper in examining and bringing into focus how Japan became an international creditor i.e. net capital exporter in the world financial system aside from her leading role in world trade. This position was attained through a combination of many factors, some of which were sectoral savings-investment imbalances and the co-existence of high-employment government deficit and the high-employment current account surplus in the 1970s and 1980s. The author thus, traced the historical evolution of Japan• s …

Special Reports, Mihoko Miki, Yasuko Matsudo, Tai-Loi Ma, Amy V. Heinrich, Kimii Mitsui

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This task force was formed in August 1992 to work for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Foreign acquisitions Project for Japanese materials. The charge of the task force is to write a report which assesses current strengths and weaknesses of the major United States and Canadian Japanese research collections, determines their needs and priorities, and offers concrete action/funding proposals to address the identified problems. Fortunately, a number of previous reports and studies on the issues are available, and we reviewed and studied them carefully, including the "Survey" (1980) by Naomi Fukuda, the Perushek Report (1990), and the reports of …

Administering Justice In A Consensus-Based Society, Koichiro Fujikura

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox by John O. Haley

Tempting The Japanese Taste Buds, Glenis Ayling

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

"Australia needs to differentiate its product from those of other countries: it needs to do something a bit different toget products on the shelves and sold.

Japanese consumers expect the price to be reasonable and the flavor to be good. They will buy on the image the product cenveys, and the image or 'message' the country of manufacture has in Japan," -

Toshio Tada.

Kai Eduard Rasmussen: A Danish American Hero, Val Hempel

The Bridge

Over the years, ever since immigration to the United States began, hundreds and thousands of Danes have crossed the Atlantic to begin new lives, to work, to settle and to become Americans. The vast majority of them have helped strengthen and build their adopted land, enrich its culture and add durable strands to that multicolored fabric that is America. Many stepped lightly and left few tracks while others broke bold new trails. A few fashioned memorable evidences of their journeys. Names such as Peter Lassen, Jacob Riis, William S. Knudsen, Jean Hersholdt, Victor Borge and others are known to millions. …

History Of The Foreign Lawyer In Japan, Patrick Duffin

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The foreign lawyer in Japan has enjoyed periods of relative freedom to practice law as well as being subject to rigid restrictions limiting the accessibility of the legal market. The focus of this paper will be the significant events in the history of the foreign lawyer in Japan from the first influences of Western law in the late 1800's to the 1986 Special Measures Law Concerning the Handling of Legal Business by Foreign Lawyers.

Institutionalized Corruption And Political Reform In Japan, Louis D. Hayes

Selected Papers in Asian Studies: Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Recent Behavior Of The Japanese Nikkei Stock Market Average, Mark I. Tanis

Honors Capstones

Since December, 1989, The Japanese Nikkei Stock Market Average has lost over 59 percent of its value. This translates into trillions of Yen in "paper profits" lost with this recent decline in Japan's Stock Market. This thesis depicts several contributing causes to The Nikkei's fall including the following: A changing stock market arena, the banking industry, blue chip companies, and a changing Japanese society. The Changing Stock Market Arena The Tokyo Stock Exchange is changing in at least four different respects. The lack of a formal bond market forces investors to exercise their warrants, driving down The Nikkei Average. The …

Longterm Strategies In Japanese Environmental Litigation, Setsuo Miyazawa

Faculty Scholarship

Japan's reputation for unusually strong emphasis on the avoidance of public conflict and therefore for de-emphasis of legal institutions suggests an arid, hostile environment for litigators, especially those who lack substantial resources. In a study of a quasi-class action lawsuit by Japanese air pollution victims, we find that litigation can be developed as a tool in the pursuit of a social movement's wider objectives despite the paucity of resources within the Japanese legal system. Our research documents the many ways in which the delays, obstacles, and costs that characterize the litigation environment in Japan have been either neutralized or turned …

Reporting The Truth And Setting The Record Straight: An Analysis Of U.S. And Japanese Libel Laws, Ellen M. Smith

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Note argues that U.S. courts and lawmakers should adopt some aspects of Japanese libel law. Part I compares the balances struck in U.S. and Japanese libel law between promoting press freedoms and protecting individual interests. Part II focuses on the extent to which each system succeeds in addressing the objectives of encouraging aggressive, accurate reporting, and compensating libel victims. Finally, Part III proposes a new U.S. libel standard that would adopt, with some modifications, key elements of Japanese libel law without running afoul of established U.S. constitutional requirements.

Making America Competitive, Mark J. Loewenstein

Publications

No abstract provided.

Japanese Juvenile Justice: An Exploratory Look, Kym Rutherford

Honors Theses

"Among industrialized nations, Japan has the lowest crime rate and is considered to have one of the best criminal justice systems in the world" (Thorton, 1992, p. 471). If this statement is true, what can the United States learn from Japan about crime reduction? Discussion shall focus on the chosen topic of juvenile justice. Two key questions arise when dealing with the overriding question of what the United States can learn from the Japanese justice system. First, what are the cultural factors that influence juvenile crime behavior in Japan? Second, how do the Japanese respond to their juvenile delinquents?

Job Security And Work Force Adjustment: How Different Are U.S. And Japanese Practices?, Katharine Abraham, Susan Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.